ARC Investigators' Research to Date

Results from ARC investigators’ research to-date on issues of research design, generalizability, evidence generation, knowledge accumulation, and underrepresented groups appear in numerous publications and were presented at several professional meetings, including:

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Building a scientific community: The need for replication (Schneider)Teachers College Record, 106: 1471-1483

Gendered Differences in Aligned Ambitions: High School Experiences and Pursuit of Postsecondary Opportunities in STEM Fields (Perez-Felkner, Schneider, & Grogan)
In Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment (Schoon and Eccles, Eds.)

Scale-up as a framework for program and policy evaluation research (McDonald)
In Handbook of Education Policy Research (Sykes, Schneider, & Plank, Eds.)

The Changing Landscape for Educational Opportunity: Enhancing the Public Option for Black Youth (Perez-Felkner, Schneider, Hedberg)
In Black Educational Choice in a Climate of School Reform: Consequences for K-12 Student Learning and Development(Slaughter-Defoe, Stevenson, Arrington, and Johnson, Eds.)

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Assessing the impacts of knowledge-producing organizations (Brown)
Education research that makes a difference: Who produces it and what can we learn from their successes?
Symposium at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Bridging the gap between scientifically based education research and evidence-based education: The need and prospects for translational research (McDonald)
Education research that makes a difference: Who produces it and what can we learn from their successes?
Symposium at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Building capacity to conduct and utilize high quality research: Lessons from and for education research
Presidential Invited Session, 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Changing the way we think about improving student learning outcomes: Conceptualizing and contextualizing scale-up in educational research
Presidential Invited Session, 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Dealing with dependence in meta-analysis (Hedges)
2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods.

Estimating causal effects using observational and experimental data (Schneider)
Korean Society for the Study of Sociology of Education.

Improving the generalization from meta-analysis (Hedges)
Invited address at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods.

Inspiring youth to careers in science and medicine: Lessons from the Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development (Schneider)
2008 Social Science Perspectives on Workforce Policy Conference, Centers for Disease Control.

There and back again: Demographic survey sampling in the 21st century (O’Muircheartaigh)
Keynote, Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Biennial Research Conference.

Using the instrumental variables technique in education research (Hedges)
Invited address at the 2008 Annual Institute of Education Sciences Research Conference.

What Happens to High-Achieving Females after High School? Gender and Persistence on the Postsecondary STEM Pipeline (Perez-Felkner, McDonald, & Schneider)
2011 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Making Research Products Public Goods (McDonald)
2011 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

An Investigation of the Within- and Between- District Variance Structure of Academic Achievement in Massachusetts (Hedges and Hedberg)
Spring 2011 Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)

Resilience in Pathways to Four-Year College Degrees: Perceived Regard and School Reform (Perez-Felkner)
Invited Session, 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.